Diet Culture, Eating Disorder Recovery, and Health at Every Size®

Eating disorders evolve out of complex, interacting biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. One consistent barrier to full recovery from an eating disorder is the existing sociocultural obsession with thinness, fear [...]
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How Romanticized Cultural Ideals Influence Body Image

Woman struggling with orthorexia and Exercise Addiction

Cultural ideals of the female and male body have long been implicated in the development of eating disorders in the Western world. One of the more important studies highlighting this [...]
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Authenticity in Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating Disorder Treatment is known to be most successful when the individual decides for themselves that they want to and are willing to get better. According to Center for Discovery, [...]
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Taylor Engle and Her Story: How to Take Your Life Back – Recovering from Anorexia

The first thing I noticed was the colors. The world, for so long a dull figment of my affinity for the dark and misunderstood, was forcing me to drink in [...]
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Do No Harm: Embrace Health at Every Size

The frantic focus on weight in relation to health has been detrimental to our society and the individuals within it. The use of terms like “overweight” and “obese” are misleading [...]
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Effects of Calorie Transparency in Menus on Eating Disorders

Girls eating and glad about calorie counts on menus

Contributor: Staff at Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center Dining out can be a difficult experience for women who have eating disorders. Restaurants can bring about feelings of anxiety and uncertainty [...]
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Tips for Post Pregnancy Healthy Body Image

Woman Struggling With Pregorexia In A Wheat Field

Motherhood is a huge adjustment, and just like in eating disorder recovery, it requires a shift in identity — moving towards a larger and more dimensional sense of self. For [...]
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Unique Concerns for Women with Binge Eating Disorder

Gender impacts a great deal of how we all experience life. The thoughts and beliefs we have and the choices we make can all be impacted by how we view [...]
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Obesity & Binge Eating Disorder

The size, weight, and shape of all bodies are different, with no two alike, even if they are both struggling with disordered eating. Even so, research does indicate that there [...]
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Prevalence of Binge Eating Disorder

Binge eating disorder (BED) has only recently gained recognition as an official diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual, 5th Edition (DSM-V). According to the National Eating Disorder [...]
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